ironwood-lang/ironwood

Ironwood is an ahead-of-time compiled, object-oriented language for high-performance native applications. It preserves the familiar Java syntax, object model, and everyday APIs that Java developers already know, while producing optimized native executables with no JVM, JIT, or garbage collector.

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• What do you think of a Java-like language that compiles to native code? (2 points, 7 comments, by joas_coder, 2026-09-21)